| Author | Message | ||
     Court |
Some of the kids at school have been busy . . . went to see a presentation they did last night. Science Fair on steroids. http://particlefever.com (Message edited by court on June 05, 2014) | ||
| Hootowl |
I'm excited. | ||
| Etennuly |
I love reading and watching this stuff. Thanks Court, for pointing this out. | ||
| Court |
It's fascinating . . . . . my classroom is 2 floors about the remnants of the cyclotron where Enrico Fermi spilt the atom. The project, called the Manhattan Project, was moved under the stadium in Chicago for fear that NYC could become a target. Good timing. Pearl Harbor was bombed the next day. Columbia is an interesting place. The first school in the county (actually it, at the time was the "13 Colonies" . . . the USA would take a few more years and a bit of a skirmish with the Brits . . . during which time instruction was suspended at the school) to award and M.D. degree. I love working with these kids (I use that term cognizant that some of them are 30 by the time they get their Ph.D.) and it renews my faith. The project in Cern has heavy involvement from the folks here in Pupin and, as I have for a couple Badwebbers, it's always fun to take folks to the off the beaten path upper floors where the meat and potatoes of this work is taking place. Never gets old . . . . Here . . .want some fun . . . . . | ||
| Etennuly |
 Thanks! That led on to cost me a couple of hours! | ||
| Gregtonn |
Etennuly, TED talks will do that to you. My son and I used to exchange emails of our favorite TED talks weekly. We quit when we realized how many hours we were spending every week watching TEDs. Not that it wasn't enjoyable, but it was almost as time consuming as the BadWeb  . G | ||
| Gregtonn |
And then there was researching the basis for the TED... and researching ideas that resulted from the TED and... and the new ideas that came up while researching... and... Well You get the idea. G |
